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Ansible 2.6 

Release Schedule 

Actual 

2018-05-17 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-05-21 Alpha Release 1
2018-05-25 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-05-25 Branch stable-2.6
2018-05-30 Alpha Release 2
2018-06-05 Release Candidate 1
2018-06-08 Release Candidate 2
2018-06-18 Release Candidate 3
2018-06-25 Release Candidate 4
2018-06-26 Release Candidate 5
2018-06-28 Final Release

Release Manager 

2.6.0-2.6.12 Matt Clay (IRC/GitHub: @mattclay)
2.6.13+ Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)

Engine improvements 

Version 2.6 is largely going to be a stabilization release for Core code.
Some of the items covered in this release, but are not limited to are the following:
- ansible-inventory
- import_*
- include_*
- Test coverage
- Performance Testing

Core Modules 

Adopt-a-module Campaign
- Review current status of all Core Modules
- Reduce backlog of open issues against these modules

Cloud Modules 

Network 

Connection work 

New connection plugin: eAPI proposal#102
New connection plugin: NX-API
Support for configurable options for network_cli & netconf

Modules 

New net_get - platform independent module for pulling configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli
New net_put - platform independent module for pushing configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli
New netconf_get - Netconf module to fetch configuration and state data proposal#104

Other Features 

Stretch & tech preview: Configuration caching for network_cli. Opt-in feature to avoid show running performance hit